People have used self-portraits to communicate information about themselves for centuries—and digital cameras make it easier to share a self-portrait than ever before. But even though selfies are now almost ubiquitous, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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The islands of South-East Asia record a long and dynamic human history of technological innovation, migration and conflict.
Archaeology
Aug 24, 2023
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Balding is really common, affecting more than 50% of men. It's also physically inconsequential (bald men live just as long as haired men). So why, in his memoir Spare, does Prince Harry refer to his brother's baldness as ...
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
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Researchers from the Natural History in London have collaborated with researchers from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to establish the cause of damage to the world-famous medieval murals in Kyiv's Saint Sophia ...
Archaeology
Sep 28, 2022
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An ancient Roman bust from around the first century that had been missing for decades has finally made its way into the San Antonio Museum of Art, and all it took was for one artist to buy it from a Texas Goodwill for under ...
Archaeology
May 6, 2022
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On the land where Cordoba is located in the 21st century, two cities coexisted in the past, each on a hill. An Iberian city was located where Cruz Conde Park lies today, and a Roman city, which was founded at a later time, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2019
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Scientists researching the origins and evolution of graphic codes have turned to the popular web platform Reddit to explore how culture evolves. When a Reddit art initiative attracted over 1 million online participants, Thomas ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2018
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Ancient carvings recently discovered in caves in the Saudi desert are the first to show dogs on leads.
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2017
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Under beams of X-rays, the colors of art become the colors of chemistry. The mysterious blacks, reds and whites of ancient Greek pottery can be read in elements—iron, potassium, calcium and zinc—and art history may be ...
General Physics
Oct 13, 2016
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When preserved specimens of birds of paradise—prized throughout 17th-century Europe for their vivid plumage, rarity and distant origins—were exported from their native Papua, New Guinea, by the Dutch, their feet were ...
Archaeology
Nov 20, 2015
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